Fresco from the Temple of the Warriors, Chichén Itzá. The fresco depicts life in a coastal village. The water is teaming with sea creatures and warriors setting out in canoes. In the background the houses, trees, merchants with packs on their backs....

Fresco depicting banking in Italy during the middle ages. Florence, Venice, Siena and Genoa were the leaders of the economic world. The lower section of the fresco depicts customers and the account books. The upper portion is of the bank's counting...

Fresco titled 'The Triumph of St Thomas' attributed to Andrea da Firenze. St Thomas is depicted, enthroned, as the focus of an allegory on learning. In his hands he displays the Wisdom of Solomon: the passage begins, 'I prayed, and...

Fresco painted by the Tuscan artist Simone Martini (1284-1344) representing the siege of Montemassi. The fresco depicts Guidoriccio de Fogliano, an Italian leader and imperial vicar for Reggio Emilia, on horseback, an encampment and catapult behind the...

Fresco depicting the Dominican Order painted by the Italian artist Andrea da Firenze. The painting depicts the hierarchy of power in the Church. Fresco is located in the Spanish Chapel, Florence. Dated 13th Century

Fresco painted by the Tuscan artist Simone Martini (1284-1344) representing the siege of Montemassi. The fresco depicts Guidoriccio de Fogliano, an Italian leader and imperial vicar for Reggio Emilia, on horseback, an encampment and catapult behind the...

Fresco depicting the Dominican Order painted by the Italian artist Andrea da Firenze. The painting depicts the hierarchy of power in the Church. Fresco is located in the Spanish Chapel, Florence. Dated 13th Century

Fresco titled 'The Triumph of St Thomas' attributed to Andrea da Firenze. St Thomas is depicted, enthroned, as the focus of an allegory on learning. In his hands he displays the Wisdom of Solomon: the passage begins, 'I prayed, and...

Fresco depicting the last supper and the washing of the feet from the Rossano Codex, a Greek manuscript of the 6th Century containing the Gospels of Matthew and Mark. At the last supper Christ and the disciples recline round the table in the classical...

Fresco of St Francis. Also known as Francis of Assisi, an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis for men and women. Dated 13th Century

Fresco from the tomb of Nebamun, shows Nebamun on a small papyrus boat with his wife Hatshepsut behind him and his son below. He is about to let fly a throw stick into a mass of birds above a papyrus thicket. Thebes, Egypt 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC

Fresco from the tomb of Nebamun, shows Nebamun watching agricultural activities. The painting shows a man, probably an official under Nebamun's supervision, bending over a white boundary marker stone, holding a stick. The chariots at the right show...

Fresco from the tomb of Nebamun, shows Nebamun watching agricultural activities. The painting shows a man, probably an official under Nebamun's supervision, bending over a white boundary marker stone, holding a stick. The chariots at the right show...

Fresco from the tomb of Nebamun, shows a pool in a garden that might have belonged to Nebamun. The pool is full of birds, lotus flowers and tilapia fish, while papyrus grows along the edge. Around the pool are palms, dom-palms, sycamore fig, mandrakes,...

Fresco from the tomb of Nebamun, shows Nebamun on a small papyrus boat with his wife Hatshepsut behind him and his son below. He is about to let fly a throw stick into a mass of birds above a papyrus thicket. Thebes, Egypt 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC

Fresco from the tomb of Nebamun, shows a pool in a garden that might have belonged to Nebamun. The pool is full of birds, lotus flowers and tilapia fish, while papyrus grows along the edge. Around the pool are palms, dom-palms, sycamore fig, mandrakes,...

Fresco titled 'The Last Judgment' by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western...